Fracchia, Helena
Dr. Helena Fracchia
(Professor)
PhD, Classical Archaeology, University of California,
Berkeley
MA, Classical Archaeology, University of California,
Berkeley
BA, Greek, University of California,
Berkeley
Director, University of Alberta School in Cortona, Italy
Director, University of Alberta Archaeological Field School in Italy
St. Agostino, Via Guelfa 40
Cortona, Arezzo, ITALY
| Expertise & Research Interests |
Greek, Pre-Roman and Roman Art and Archaeology
| Academic History |
University of Alberta
1996 Associate Chair of History and Classics
1997 Director, U of A School in Cortona Italy
1991 Director, U of A Archaeological Field School in Italy
1991 Full Professor
1986-1991 Associate Professor
1983-1985 Assistant Professor
1979-1983 Sessional Lecturer
| Recognition |
2003-2004 Killiam Annual Professorship
1991-1992 McCalla Research Professorship, University of Alberta
| Excavations |
1997 Survey and excavation at Oppido Lucano (Potenza) Basilicata, collaborative research with the Superintendency of Basilicata
1992 Excavation and territorial survey at Ossaia/Cortona: villa at one time continuing belonging to the Imperial family, 1st century B.C.- 5th century A.D. Collaborative project with the University of Perugiaand town of Cortona
1991 Survey and preliminary study of the Roman site at Ossaia/Cortona (Arezzo) in conjunction with the University of Perugia
1989 Oppido Lucano (Basilicata Italy): Roman site 2nd c. B.C.-late 5th c. A.D. Coinvestigator with M. Gualtieri.1983-92 (Roccagloriosa ): pre-Roman Lucanian site, survey director, pottery analyst, site supervisor
1986 Sinuessa (Naples, Italy): Roman maritime colony, 3rd century B.C.-6th century A.D. Co-director with P. Arthur, M. Gualtieri, pottery analyst and site supervisor
1984-85 Carmeniello ai Mannesi (Naples Italy): 4th century B.C.-12th century A.D. urban site. Pottery analyst.
1983 Tempa Cortaglia (Basilicata Italy): Survey project, rural settlement patterns, 7th century B.C.-1st century A.D. Director.
1982 Argolid (Greece): Survey project, rural settlement patterns, 5th-3rd centuries B.C. Director.
1981-82 San Giovanni di Ruoti (Basilicata Italy): Roman villa. Associate pottery analyst.
1980-82 Roccagloriosa (Salerno Italy): see above, external collaborator for the Superintendency of Salerno, pottery analyst 1976-83 Collaborator. Survey projects in various regions of Greece with Prof. W.K. Pritchett, Univ. of California Berkeley
1975 Nemea (Greece): Archaic through Hellenistic pan-Hellenic site, site supervisor
| Operating Grants |
2002-2004
PRIN-MURST (Italian Federal Government Grant), co-investigator Paesaggi e Insediamenti Rurali in Italia Meridionale nel Tardo Antico (National Co-ordinator G. Volpe)
2001-2002
Consiglio Nazionale di Ricerca-MURST: Co-investigator in grant for work in the territory of Cortona
1993-2005
Township of Cortona for excavations at Ossaia. Principal Investigator
1997-2000
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: Principal Investigator, 3 year grant for study of Roman land use and settlement at Oppido Lucano (Potenza), Basilicata, $125,000
| Publications |
Articles
2004 The evolution of cult space and cult practice in Western Lucania in A. Comella, M. Torelli, eds., Atti del Convegno Internazionale sui Depositi Votivi in Italia, 36-45
2004 with M. Gualtieri, L’imagine della aristocrazia lucana, in Melanges de l'Ecole Française de Rome Antiquité
2004 with John Hayes, A Sealed Pottery Deposit of the Late Second Century A.D.: Implications for the Roman Rural Economy in Studi Miscellanea: L’evidenza archeologica per il paesaggio rurali nell’Italia meridionale nel tardoantico, (ed. G. Volpe) 2004 ”Settlement and Cultural Change in the 4th and 3rd c. B.C.: Southern Samnium, Northern Apulia and Western Lucania” in Studies in Honor of E.T. Salmon in Archaeologia Transatlantica (ed. Howard Jones), 69-84.
2002 with M. Gualtieri, Gli insediamenti sparsi nella Lucania Occidentale in Geografia Antigua X-XI, 84-108
2001 The Romanization of the Ager Buxentinus" in Studi sulla "Modalità insediative e strutture agrarie nell'Italia meridionale in età romana" (ed. E. Lo Cascio and A.Storchi Marino) Bari, 55-74
1999 with M. Gualtieri,Roman Lucania: The upper Bradano valley in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. 43 (1999), 295-344
Books
2001 Gualtieri and Fracchia. Roccagloriosa II: Il territorio e la regione dall' terzo secolo a.C. al tardo antico, Ecole Francaise de Rome/Centre Jean Berard Naples, vol. 16 in the series Bibliotheque de l'Institut Francaise du Naples, 250 pp.
1993 Second author in M. Gualtieri ed., Fourth Century B.C. Magna Graecia: A Case Study from Western Lucania, chaps. "The Votive Deposit pp. 108-140, "The Regional Landscape" pp.227-254, "The Ceramic Industry" pp. 255-281, in Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology (Goteborg, Sweden), vol. 114, 394 pp.
1990 Second author and co-editor with M. Gualtieri, Roccagloriosa I: L'Abitato, Scavo e Ricognizione (1976-1986), Ecole Francaise de Rome/Centre Jean Berard Naples, vol. 8 in the series Bibliotheque de l'Institut Francais du Naples, 500 pp. (published with a grant from the French Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) |
plus many other publications.
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